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Webster 1913 Edition


Coadjutor

Coˊad-ju′tor

,
Noun.
[L. See
Co
-, and
Aid
.]
1.
One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker.
Craftily outwitting her perjured
coadjutor
.
Sheridan.
2.
(R. C. Ch.)
The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice.

Webster 1828 Edition


Coadjutor

COADJUTOR

,
Noun.
1.
One who aids another; an assistant; a fellow-helper; an associate in operation.
2.
In the canon law, one who is empowered or appointed to perform the duties of another.

Definition 2024


coadjutor

coadjutor

English

Noun

coadjutor (plural coadjutors)

  1. An assistant or helper.
    • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 206-7:
      The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor’s white, startled face.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 12,
      Hitherto I have been but the witness, little more; and I should hardly think now to take another tone, that of your coadjutor, for the time, did I not perceive in you,—at the crisis too—a troubled hesitancy, proceeding, I doubt not, from the clash of military duty with moral scruple—scruple vitalized by compassion.
  2. (ecclesiastical) An assistant to a bishop.
    • 1842 John Henry Newman - The Ecclesiastical History of M. L'abbé Fleury:
      When old age rendered any Bishop unable to perform his duties, the first example of which occurs AD 211, when Alexander became coadjutor to Narcissus at Jerusalem
    • 2005 James Martin Estes - Peace, Order and the Glory of God:
      August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt (who was both a theologian and a priest as well as a prince) to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters.

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Spanish

Noun

coadjutor m (plural coadjutores)

  1. coadjutor